Gamekeeper
Jun 10, 2020
3 minutes
Alan Edwards is conservation manager at Bywell, a Purdey gold award estate in Northumberland
There is something both immediately beautiful and startling about the alarm call of a lapwing. I swiftly scanned the landscape, searching for the bird and her chicks that were under threat. The danger, I soon discovered, was nothing more than a wandering cock pheasant. He had strayed near the four chicks and the mother wasn’t happy. Seven pairs
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